DARDANELLE — A man who escaped from the Dardanelle jail in March has pleaded guilty to several felony charges.

On Nov. 14, Brett Cooksey Charron, 22, was sentenced to 20 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to several charges in Yell County Circuit Court.

According to the Arkansas Department of Corrections, Charron is serving 20 years for kidnapping and 10 years each for charges of first degree-escape and impairing the operation of a vital public facility. He also received six years for possession of firearms by certain persons.

Charron and two others, Seth Chowning, 32, and Jacqueline Stobaugh, 31, escaped from the Dardanelle Jail on March 17.

According to court documents, Chowning allegedly started pushing and then punching a jailer who was preparing to move Chowning and Charron from the bullpen area back to their cells.

Charron then began helping Chowning, and the two men cornered the jailer into the booking area, continually kicking and punching him. The men demanded the jailer give them his keys, but the man refused.

The struggled moved down the hall and into the male cell block. Chowning and Charron continued punching and kicking the jailer, according to the report, and caused him to fall into the day room. When he fell, Charron was able to take the jailer's keys.

The jailer was then locked in the day room and the men went and unlocked Stobaugh from where she was being held. Charron came back and demanded more information from the jailer, the report stated, and got a piece of iron from a bed and threatened to kill the jailer if he did not provide the information.

When the jailer refused to give the information, the three escapees fled the building and another inmate called 911.

All three escapees were apprehended within approximately eight hours of their escape.

Chowning and Stobaugh are scheduled to appear in Yell County Circuit Court for pretrial hearings on Dec. 12, and their trials are scheduled for Dec. 23.